Tag Archive: back bends

How to Safely Deepen Backbends

There’s a core concept to deepening any yoga posture: honesty. Yoga is about your relationship with yourself, and to go deeper in any pose requires you uphold that relationship with integrity. Regardless of… Continue reading

Eka Pada Rajakapotasana: 5 Secrets For Getting Into Pigeon Pose

Go thumb through Light On Yoga and you’ll discover at least eleven different poses that resemble Pigeon pose. Eka Pada Rajakapotasana, itself, has four different variations! So much of the body has to be flexible and… Continue reading

Yoga For Asthma (Or Anyone Who Wants to Breathe Deeply)

What’s happening in the physical body is often a manifestation of something deeper. For most people a build-up of memories and feelings get stored in the energetic body. Long-held beliefs about everything from our… Continue reading

The Ultimate Backbend: How to Dropback to Wheel

No other yoga pose makes me feel more empowered and alive than a Dropback. What’s cool about it is it’s actually a transitional practice between two poses: Mountain and Wheel. To make that transition fluidly… Continue reading